Why should what matter? Google's composition? That wasn't the main point of the piece at all.
"How can we be a supposedly post-racial society and yet ..."
We simply are not a post-racial society, not by a long way. The way to get there is not to pretend that we are and hope it all goes away. Google's data is just more information that can be used in the discussion. It is not particularly surprising, though. I think that their publication of it is more significant that the data itself, in this case.
"How can we be a supposedly post-racial society and yet ..."
We simply are not a post-racial society, not by a long way. The way to get there is not to pretend that we are and hope it all goes away. Google's data is just more information that can be used in the discussion. It is not particularly surprising, though. I think that their publication of it is more significant that the data itself, in this case.